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It is Christmas time already, I had so many things I was going to blog about and yet here we are, 9 days away from Christmas. Time seems to run away so fast, the older I get the faster is seems to go. Do you notice the same thing? So what have I been doing? well I have been doing a few videos on youtube, do you subscribe to me? Take a look and see what you think. Here

This will be my last blog for a couple of months. We are taking some long overdue leave. Going to get lost somewhere between the east and west coast of Australia. It will be good that I am going to be away from my kitchen for awhile and for a good part of our break we will also be away from any shops. So the waistline will love me. I baked these biscuits with the intention of keeping some for

When life gets mundane and tiresome, make some peanut brownies. Sometimes there are just not enough hours in the day and you still need to keep on going. You need food for lunches, morning tea or just something to offer a guest. Well these little puppies fill that spot and they are easy to make.

Edmonds Bournvita Biscuits ~ 1971 Cookbook Bournvita Biscuits. When I first mentioned them in the Edmonds cookbook Facebook group, the response was, “Wow”, “have not had them for years”, “can you still get Bournvita?” And there was the problem. I did not know if you could get it at all. According to Wikipedia, Bournvita was discontinued in the UK market in 2008. The drink was named by Cadbury, which was derived from Bournville, the model village which is the

Basic Biscuits. The humble biscuit, the thing you dunk into a cuppa. Now I must admit I stuffed up this week. I had in my head that the 1971 Edmonds cookbook had this recipe in it. But it does not. Why I picked up my 1992 copy, I will never know. A habit I think. I have been picking it up for years. And this version of the Edmonds never ever gets put away. And since I had gone to

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Hi, I am Rachel!
A country girl at heart. I am a whole food cook.
Growing up on the beautiful Canterbury plains of New Zealand I learned to cook from good wholesome raw ingredients. That has provided me with a good base fundamentals of where our food comes.
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